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Chicago has a Percent for Art program of public artworks, although it is notoriously more opaque and secretive than that of most other cities; arts activist such as Paul Klein and attorney Scott Hodes have long criticized its lack of public accountability. [121] Chicago is home to a number of large, outdoor works by well-known artists.
Just opened: Black-owned Provaré puts Creole spin on Italian, and 7 more new Chicago-area restaurants Louisa Chu, Chicago Tribune September 28, 2021 at 6:00 AM
Indigenous people bought European goods (fabric, alcohol, firearms, etc.), learned French, and sometimes adopted their religion. The coureurs des bois and soldiers borrowed canoes and moccasins. Many of them ate native food such as wild rice and various meats, like bear and dog. The colonists were often dependent on the Native Americans for food.
Creole of color artists, such as Sidney Bechet and Jelly Roll Morton, helped spread Jazz; and Allen Toussaint, the "beloved Creole gentleman", contributed to rhythm and blues. [ 10 ] Creoles of color who moved to other states founded diaspora communities, which were called "Little New Orleans", such as Little New Orleans, in Los Angeles and ...
Louisiana French (LF) is the regional variety of the French language spoken throughout contemporary Louisiana by individuals who today identify ethno-racially as Creole, Cajun, or French, as well as some who identify as Spanish (particularly in New Iberia and Baton Rouge, where the Creole people are a mix of French and Spanish and speak the ...
The Follow Your Roots dinner was an evening of joy, storytelling, and meaningful food. ... some estimates say 100,000 yams fed 500 enslaved people — sometimes their only foodstuff.”
Following an increase of poverty in the Chicago area, the six founders were inspired to start a food bank. [5] They followed the example of John van Hengel, who started the nation's first food bank in Phoenix, Arizona. [6] However, due to an Illinois statute that prohibited the use of the word ‘bank’ in the name of non-banking entities, the ...
The English word creole derives from the French créole, which in turn came from Portuguese crioulo, a diminutive of cria meaning a person raised in one's house.Cria is derived from criar, meaning "to raise or bring up", itself derived from the Latin creare, meaning "to make, bring forth, produce, beget"; which is also the source of the English word "create".